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<span id="envvar:CMAKE_<LANG>_LINKER_LAUNCHER"></span><h1>CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER<a class="headerlink" href="#cmake-lang-linker-launcher" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.21.</span></p>
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<p>This is a CMake <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-language.7.html#cmake-language-environment-variables"><span class="std std-ref">Environment Variable</span></a>. Its initial value is taken from
the calling process environment.</p>
<p>Default launcher to use when linking a target of the specified language. Will
only be used by CMake to initialize the variable on the first configuration.
Afterwards, it is available through the cache setting of the variable of the
same name. For any configuration run (including the first), the environment
variable will be ignored if the <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_LANG_LINKER_LAUNCHER.html#variable:CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER" title="CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_&lt;LANG&gt;_LINKER_LAUNCHER</span></code></a>
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